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    Not getting a job in my field after graduating. I was at a very low point in my life and let that window of opportunity go and now I feel like I can’t go back because it’s been quite a few years and nobody wants people like me. Oh well, I’ll find something else to do, but it does sting a bit that depression robbed me of my future like that.

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    I really should have learned to drive in high school when I had the chance. No money->no car->no job loops have bit me quite a lot as an adult.

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      Same here, I often find job postings asking for a driver’s license for reasons. I’m happy as can be on my bike, though, I don’t get the car hype.

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    I thought about buying about a thousand bitcoins when it would have costed me a hundred bucks. Never did though.

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    Not fighting harder to buy a house when it was cheap. My SO hated the idea soo much. Now still living in same place I cant do jack to. And 10 years we won’t have a home thanks to my grandma’s stupidity and pride.

    Sometimes I wonder if i chose the wrong person. I love my SO but our life goals are as different as can be. Took 15 years to convince to my side.

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      Yeah I wanted to buy a house 5 years ago, but my wife (fiance at the time) was too nervous. Home prices had risen 40% by the time she was comfortable with it.

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    Trusting that my guidance counselors would do their job. Not switching high schools because they didn’t look very different.

    My school refused to let me in more difficult classes I thought I needed for college even though I requested them, was recommended them by my grade school and even tested into them. I only found out recently that I test advance proficient, but they lied to me about when I was a student.

    All because when I was in kindergarten, someone decided I had a reading disability.

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    Not living up to my own potential. I’ve led a pretty uneventful life with few, if any, accolades. I know that I actually have the capacity to be excellent in certain regards, but I can’t seem to force myself to actually put in the work. Doesn’t help that I’ve been called lazy my entire life. Some therapists seem to think a “fear of success” is part of the pathology but I don’t agree. I’ve been extremely intimate with failure my entire life, success is like the one thing I’ve never had and am craving daily.

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        Professionally and creatively. To elaborate, I have two degrees that I’ve never ended up using and I’ve been working in customer service/tech support for the past twenty years. I’ve been at my current company in my current role for a full decade, and the lack of upward mobility is getting to me.